{"id":529,"date":"2018-04-29T21:41:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T21:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=529"},"modified":"2025-05-14T21:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:33:17","slug":"spencer-mattox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Mattox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Quality of the Mentor-Mentee Relationship and Its Impact on Youth<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For decades, US communities have dealt with the issues of drugs, violence, and substance abuse. Countless children in these communities grow up without any positive adult figures to protect and support them in choosing appropriate behaviors and discouraging them from engaging in criminal activity. Whether at-risk youth are able to envision a positive future may be determined by the quality of the mentor-mentee relationship. This presentation will review four themes in which researchers explore the impact of the mentor-mentee relationship in building a positive future for at-risk youth. First, the duration of the mentor-mentee relationship is a key element in positively or negatively impacting the at-risk youth\u2019s life. Second, the characteristics the mentor possesses may enable his or her mentee to achieve the mentee\u2019s goals. Third, increased ethnic diversity in the mentor community may benefit the mentor and the mentee. Finally, the role the informal mentor plays in the life of his or her mentee is vital. Researchers have found that, it is essential for mentors to possess positive attributes in order to establish trust with their mentees. This, in turn, will augment the mentees\u2019 self-esteem. Researchers noted that when the mentor and mentee spend time together, positive results are observed in the behaviors of the mentee. Future directions for research will also be discussed in the presentation, including the need to conduct studies in communities heavily populated with at-risk youth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PSY 499, Capstone<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mary Ann Winter-Messiers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPS 100<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">11:30 AM &#8211; Noon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1NMjn5yCmvoScDxvgsshYFVBjFp56ED1Z9auT3SUFFQc\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Return to schedule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quality of the Mentor-Mentee Relationship and Its Impact on Youth For decades, US communities have dealt with the issues of drugs, violence, and substance abuse. Countless children in these communities grow up without any positive adult figures to protect and support them in choosing appropriate behaviors and discouraging them from engaging in criminal activity. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=529\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spencer Mattox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[661,849,29,32,33],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2018","tag-capstone","tag-mattox-s","tag-psy","tag-psy-499","tag-winter-messiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}